The news banner screamed Breckenridge, Colorado voters legalize marijuana.
That is their right, whether you agree or not.
How are the Feds going to deal with this?
Send in the troops, surveillance equipment? Will the DEA have their agents crawling through Breckenridge, identifying insurgents. Will Gitmo stay open so the CIA can torture these traitors?
How could they do this to the establishment, which makes so much coin for keeping mary jane illegal?
Will the weed start the next civil war in the USA?
I don’t smoke the stuff, don’t want to. But I understand for adults that do, whose right is it to tell them they can’t?
After all, isn’t freedom what the young people are dying for on the other side of the ocean?
Yes they’re fighting for ‘freedom’ in Afganistan, Iraq.. but not YOUR definition of freedom but the government’s.. that means the freedom of the government to exercise carte blanche wherever it likes, ignoring international conventions because the USA is always right and doesn’t need policing.. it is the police. Perhaps they’ll try and eradicate thought crime soon? I’m guilty..
What I see in the USA is that individual states often pass more useful laws than the US as a collective. The democracy exists at state level but is then whipped into shape at national level.
Hi tigercity;
Therein lies the problem of having three or four levels of government ruling on what is acceptable behavior or not. In Nevada it is legal to be a prostitute or gamble. In some states you can take an AK-47 to a public meeting. In Colorado, the town says you can smoke pot. Anywhere else in the same country it is an offense, punishable by incarceration. It also depends if it is local police or feds or state police which are enforcing the law.
This is not a good system for uniformity and will be stressed even further through this economic mess Wall Street caused, and contrary to popular belief that the population was part of it, Wall Street knew better.
The feds will still be a problem, but they can’t go after medical marijuana patients anymore. They usually only swoop in on people with a large amount, and since the law limits each individual to an ounce, it’s likely that they won’t ever see the DEA.
This is a HUGE step, and California is seeking the same outcome. It’s starting to catch on, but it will have to grow much larger for the federal government to reconsider it’s stance.
Hi sleepyeagle;
It will perform one desired function, there will be less to fear in the way of deaths, imprisonment and cartel activity when it is made legal.
The results of this war on drugs, has consumed countries. Mexico has over 13,000 horrendous murders in the last few years that they have counted so far, how many more are not counted.
If you can’t choke the demand, you will never choke off the supply, best is to regulate it.
The powers that be are using their economic paradigm against themselves. Creating a black market stimulates demand and increases the cost, which, in turn, increases profit, even though it involves risk. It is interesting to see the justification of maintaining a poorly functioning law that costs us all more in too many ways, from the prison population, to the damage we have inflicted upon other countries, and the increase in police behavior. it is clear the U.S. is able to make the same mistake time and again. Then we should look at the consequence of the invasion of Afghanistan and the rise of the poppy.
Hi bouzouki;
It is difficult for men or reason to combat the almighty dollar and power and the luxuries it affords.
Men of reason will ultimately gain peace of mind, for they know they are caring of fellow man and take into consideration all aspects known.
The other care only for their physical comfort and the rest be damned.